Word: sharings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply is not in good enough shape to take advantage of the weak dollar. Many companies have trouble matching the quality of products from abroad. Other firms are running into production bottlenecks because they have skimped on investment. Some industries have been virtually wiped out by foreign competition: the share of the U.S. consumer electronics market held by American companies has plunged from almost 100% in 1970 to less than 5% today. When the Japanese started coming up with innovative products like VCRs and hand-held video cameras, U.S. firms decided to sell Tokyo's models rather than...
...Gone With the Wind. On NBC: the TV debut of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. On ABC: a much hyped TV movie, Elvis! Some network programmers grumble that this costly confrontation amounts to a three-way kamikaze mission. But it draws the crowds. Elvis! wins a 40% share of the viewing audience, Gone With the Wind gets 36%, and Cuckoo's Nest pulls in 32%. Does that add up to more than 100%? Indeed: some households had two sets...
...since the days of Uncle Miltie, Maverick and Playhouse 90 -- may not be dying, but they are sick and fighting for survival. Eating away at their audience is a panoply of new video choices: cable channels, independent stations, videocassette recorders, even an upstart "fourth network." The three networks' combined share of the audience shrank to a low of 70% last season, and the decline shows no signs of leveling off. New technologies like home satellite dishes and fiber-optic cable could eventually pose even greater threats. "We've been outplayed, outsold, outmarketed, outhustled by younger entrepreneurs," says Howard Stringer...
...network, though hampered by a weaker station lineup, has also made an impact on network viewing, especially on Sunday nights. Fox's 21 Jump Street, a teen-oriented cop show, has grabbed a healthy share of the audience at 7 p.m., and the new crime-stopper series America's Most Wanted often beats several network shows in the weekly Nielsen list...
...this has helped depress the numbers that networks live by. A decade ago, the benchmark of prime-time success was a Nielsen rating of 20. (The rating refers to the percentage of total TV homes that are tuned in to a particular show. The "share" refers to the percentage of homes watching TV that are tuned to that show.) In the 1980-81 season, 28 network series achieved a 20 rating or better; last season only nine did. For many weeks last summer, not a single network show cracked the 20-rating level...